Cyril Stuart

Simon Cyril Edgar Stuart^[1] (27 November 1892 – 23 August 1982) was Bishop of Uganda^[2] from 1932^[3] to 1952^[4] before returning to England to be Assistant Bishop of Worcester.^[5]

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Early life

Born on 27 November 1892,^[6] Stuart was educated at Repton School, then an all-boys private school in Repton, Derbyshire. He went on to study at St John's College, Cambridge.

Career

Military service

Stuart served in the British Army during World War I. On 9 May 1915, he was commissioned into the North Staffordshire Regiment as a second lieutenant (on probation).^[7] While serving with the Suffolk Regiment, he was promoted to lieutenant on 27 March 1916.^[8] He was officer commanding of a company in the Hampshire Regiment with the acting rank of captain from 20 February 1918 to 9 May 1918.^[9] He resigned his commission on 11 February 1920.^[10]

Religious career

He was ordained in 1920 and began his career with a curacy at St Mary's, Hornsey Rise.^[11] Following this, he was chaplain and lecturer at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before a long period of service in Africa. From 1925, he was chaplain and librarian of Achimota College and then a Church Mission Society missionary^[12] in Uganda. He was consecrated a bishop by Cosmo Lang, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth Palace Chapel in 1932.^[13] After two years as an assistant bishop^[14] he was elevated to the full Episcopate^[15] in 1934.^{[citation needed]}

In 1952, he returned to England as an Assistant Bishop of Worcester and Rector of St Andrew's, Worcester.^[16] Four years later, on 19 October 1956, he was appointed a residentiary canon of Worcester Cathedral;^[17] he retired in April 1966.^[18]

He died on 23 August 1982. His memoirs are stored within the National Archives^[19] Bishop Stuart University is named after him.